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“I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'”

— Sir Winston Churchill · Quotations

“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”

— Edward Young · Quotations

“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Quotations

“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.”

— Pierre Bayle · Quotations

“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”

— Samuel Johnson · Quotations

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

— Marlene Dietrich · Quotations

“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”

— Samuel Johnson · Quotations

“He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

— Rudyard Kipling · Quotations

“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.”

— William Feather · Quotations

“What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?”

— Doctor Who · Quotations

“I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.”

— Caldwell O'Keefe · Quotations

“A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.”

— Brendan Francis · Quotations

“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”

— H. L. Mencken · Quotations

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

— Joseph Roux · Quotations

“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.”

— Sophocles · Quotations

“What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Quotations

“Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.”

— Andre Malraux · Quotations

“An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.”

— Edwin P. Whipple · Quotations

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

— Benjamin Disraeli · Quotations

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

— Seneca · Quotations